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The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
Nancy Tuckerman, in the Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, writes that in the United States, unlike the UK, a boy can be addressed as Master only until age 12, then is addressed only by his name with no title until he turns 18, when he takes the title of Mr., [5]: 662 although it is not improper to use Mr. if he is slightly younger.
This is a list of personal titles arranged in a sortable table. They can be sorted: Alphabetically; By language, nation, or tradition of origin; By function. See Separation of duties for a description of the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative functions as they are generally understood today.
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Pensioner: [35] An older person living on an old-age pension; sometimes used as an insult to refer to aging people draining the welfare system. Peter Pan : A term describing a grown adult, typically a man, who behaves like a child or teenager and refuses, either actively or passively, to act their true age.
It was a young Afghan boy, Martz found out later, who detonated 40 pounds of explosives beneath Martz’s squad. He was one of the younger kids who hung around the Marines. Martz had given him books and candy and, even more precious, his fond attention. The boy would tip them off to IEDs and occasionally brought them fresh-baked bread.
Apprentice – boy aged 16 to 18 trained in technical skills at the dockyard schools to become an artificer. Boy, as rated (after World War II known as a 'junior') – aged between 15½ and 18. On a Boy's 18th birthday he automatically became rated as an ordinary seaman and was subject to the Naval Discipline Act as applicable to adult seamen.
Armies, air forces (non-Commonwealth) Navies, coast guards: Air forces (Commonwealth system) General officers, Flag officers, Air officers; Field marshal: Admiral of the fleet ...